Alert archive / Georgia / Special Weather Statements in 2012
Special Weather Statement, NWS Charleston, SC
NWS Charleston, SC issued this special weather statement at Mar 25, 2012, 12:13 AM EDT for Bryan County, Georgia. It was in force for 32 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 25, 2012, 12:13 AM EDT (04:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 25, 2012, 12:45 AM EDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, SC
County Bryan County, GA
The radar
The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:14 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 00:00Z, 4.2 hours before the alert went out and 162 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 593 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -44 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 653 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 254 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 242 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 4.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
582 WWUS82 KCHS 250413 SPSCHS SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC 1213 AM EDT SUN MAR 25 2012 GAZ116-137-138-250445- INLAND BRYAN-INLAND LIBERTY-LONG- 1213 AM EDT SUN MAR 25 2012 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL IMPACT PORTIONS OF LIBERTY...BRYAN AND LONG COUNTIES THROUGH 1245 AM EDT... AT 1209 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM...NEAR GUM BRANCH...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL BE AFFECTED INCLUDE... FLEMINGTON...FORT STEWART...GUM BRANCH AND HINESVILLE... PREPARE NOW FOR THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS... GUSTY WINDS OF 40 TO 50 MPH... DIME SIZE HAIL... PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... BE ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AS STORMS APPROACH. BE READY TO TAKE IMMEDIATE ACTION IN CASE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING IS ISSUED FOR YOUR LOCATION. && LAT...LON 3206 8151 3189 8138 3179 8172 3196 8180 TIME...MOT...LOC 0414Z 249DEG 30KT 3191 8165 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 24, 8:51 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CHS | Candler | 24 min |
| Mar 24, 9:16 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CHS | Bulloch, Candler, Screven | 29 min |
| Mar 24, 9:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Bulloch, Candler, Effingham, Evans, Screven | 53 min |
| Mar 24, 10:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Effingham, Screven | 57 min |
| Mar 24, 10:11 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CHS | Candler | 34 min |
| Mar 25, 1:31 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CHS | 89 min | |
| Mar 25, 12:39 PM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | CHS | 5 hr | |
| Mar 24, 10:30 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CHS | Orangeburg | 30 min |
| Mar 24, 10:53 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CHS | Dorchester | 22 min |
| Mar 24, 11:19 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CHS | Berkeley | 26 min |
| Mar 25, 1:49 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CHS | Berkeley | 56 min |
| Mar 25, 4:08 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CHS | Berkeley | 22 min |
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.